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Monday, May 17, 2010

African Flower Hexagon Crochet Tutorial

Hello friends :)Today I am doing a tutorial on the African Flower Crochet hexagon.I recently joined a Ravelry group swap, and really have enjoyed making these hexagons...so I thought I would share a tutorial! This pattern was originally published in a South African magazine, and the designers are Lounette Fourie and Anita Roussouw.

Slip stitch into the first chain, to make a ring. If you are not sure how to do this, please look at this post.Haz un punto enano en la primera cadena para formar un anillo. Si no estás segura de cómo hacerlo, por favor mira este post.Saml til en ring med en kædemaske.

You will now do a dc , into the 3rd round space as seen in the pic.This will make a very long dc stitch, but will help to shape the flower petal.Ahora, realiza un punto alto en el espacio de la tercera vuelta, tal como se muestra en la fotografía. Esto producirá un punto alto muy largo, pero ayudará a dar la forma de pétalo de una flor.

FANTASTIC! Thanks so much! I've been drooling over all the beautiful african flowers on the web but have been afraid to try to start one...it's been years since I've crocheted and what I did was very basic easy beginner stuff. I'm going out to get some cheap yarn to try a few before working on a larger project. Would you expand your tutorial to include how to make african flowers into squares? Thanks again!

Just home and dropping with fatigue. But your colors were like a bright, heady scent, and your tutorial was characteristically clear and beautifully framed. And good-on-ya for that, because i'd have understood not a word otherwise, fried-minded as I am. You are lovely, Heidi.

Oh, Heidi! I KNOW I left a comment here. I wonder what happened. It was full of compliments for you. You do such a lovely job explaining. And these colors are good enough to eat. I love the shot of the first green outline.

Question about the fouth round. Here is what you wrote: Continue to work you way around the hexagon...6sc, dc, 6sc, dc etc, until you get back to the beginning...as always, join the round by slip stitch into the first sc.

There are 7 sc in the previous round for each 'petal', should the instruction be 7 sc, dc around? When I counted the stitches in the picture, I thought I counted 7 sc (besides the dc) also.

Hi everyone,"Always Right" has so kindly pointed out an error in the 4th round of this flower....it just shows you, I have read and re-read this tutorial more times than I care to count, and what do you know....the thing slipped right past my gaze! Sorry everyone, I have now corrected the post and hopefully there aren't other mistakes....please let me know if you spot any?Thank you "Always Right" for pointing it out...much appreciated :)

Hello HeidiThanks so much for this great tutorial. I too have been afraid but not anymore!Very clear instructions,great photos.Hugs Suexwww.sunshineinternationalblanketsoflove.blogspot.comwww.suesfavouritethings.blogspot.com

Your tutorial is really helpful and easy to follow. I esp love the way you crochet the yarn's ends together at the back. I tried this idea and now I have less work and they're neater! I've also linked this tutorial to my blog today to share with my readers. Thanks so much for sharing!

I love your blog it is so beautiful and I love this African flower hexagon square I can't wait to try making it. I love how you show making it in the tutorial it helps me alot. I look forward to see many of your projects.

Hola Heidi, Greetings from Spain. I'm a beginner in crocheting and few weeks ago I "discovered" the African Flower and fell in love with it... but could not manage to figure out the pattern. Today I found your blog and I must sincerely thank you for the simplicity of your tutorial! It must have taken some time for you to do it but it's absolutely fantastic...I've done several flowers in such a little time!

Heidi, thank you! If I can't follow this, I have no business crocheting!! :-) I can knit circles around people, but I always end up a stitch off or with a pentagon instead of a hexagon when I crochet. Can't wait to give this a try with your awesome tutorial! Thanks!

Having visual tutorials like this are just wonderful, thankyou so much for taking the time to photograph and explain it so well :0) I am so thrilled to have made one and have decided that this is what my next project will be. Thanks again. Annette :0)

Hello Heidi. I am Arantza, from Fuengirola (Spain). First, thank you very much for your tutorial. It is very well done. I am making a blanket to cover a rocking chair. I would like to link your blog in mine but I would like to have your permission. I am waiting for your answer. Thanks again.

Wish I had found you before I struggled with the pattern on flickr. In the end I just downloaded a picture of a motif and blew it up and went from there...no instructions needed! But yours is so understandable! You are amazing! Keep up the great work Heidi! Gloria C.

Hello Heidi, thank you very much for this tutorial. Easy to follow round-by-round instructions and pics included as well.I'm just in the 'trial' mode practising one flower in single colour - no problem at all.Thanks again

Hi Heidi, I've just found you through a link on 'The Flower Bed'.I've been working on some of my own designs, but so far not very happy with them. I think I may use yours to make a throw. Hope that's okay. Love the tutorial, nice and clear.

I just made my very first african flower- no way I could have done it without your amazing tutorial, you helped me all the way through and I am, as Germans say, "proud as Oscar" of my very first finished specimen. Thank you so much for being generous and patient enough to share this tutorial, you deserve a medal. With petals. Crocheted. I have pinned you on my pinterest, hopefully many more folks will find their way over here.

Your blog is so much fun. I actually found via a link from my Facebook/Blogger friend Nicole of "My Mad World" She posted a link to this tutorial...and I just LOVE it...so bright and colorful :):) Plus, I was really intrigued about the instructions also in Spanish :) :) I also speak fluent German and some Norwegian. IO'm planning on learning Spanish again...so this is so very helpful :) :) What inspired you to write your blog in both languages? Thanks again for this wonderful tutorial. The photos and instructions are great. Oh, one question, are your crochet instructions using American or UK terms?

I love to knit...and I"m starting to get into crochet now, too :) :)Have a lovely weekend. Love and hugs from Oregon, Heather :)

Thank you for this! I have been dying to make these and had a hard time finding a pattern. No one mentioned the size hook or the yarn. I appreciate this more than I can say. I'm going out to buy supplies today and I'll come back and follow your tutorial.When I get several of these made I'll post them on my blog and add a link back to your tutorial if that's okay with you.Thanks!!!!Faye(wildrosevintage)

I can NOT thank you enough for this. With your precise, clearly shown pictorials along with the simple explanations of the pattern, I have now made one motif. Without you I wouldnt have been able to make this. All of the other patterns have been so confusing and for something like this I NEED visuals. Thanks so much! I am already on Ravelry and I may join your group.

Thank you so much for your clear, easy tutorial! I have looked at various other hexagon tutorials, but your pictures simplify everything & give me something concrete to compare my work to as I stitch along with your instructions. It really is a beautiful pattern & I am enjoying playing around with different colors. I make blankets for the NICU where my daughter stayed & this is a beautiful, easy pattern to make each baby a unique, special gift to take home with them. Happy Crocheting!

What a wonderful tutorial. I have been crocheting for years and always wanted to attempt some motif work. I ran across your pattern while searching scrap yarn afghans. Together with your other tutorial on adding as you go I have a beautiful throw in progress. Of course, I HAD to purchase some more yarn! I am using a blindfold method of selecting colors. What fun, thank you so much for taking the time to share with us!

I made of a few of these and and I love it! I posted a link to your site on my blog at http://decidedlysimple.blogspot.com/2012/01/african-flowers.html. It's a beautiful tutorial and I wanted all of my friends to come see it!

Oh. My. Gosh. I think I love you. Seriously, I have seen these flowers a lot and never found a clear tutorial. I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO happy I did not give up on trying to find a pattern. I will be trying this out later today as it is 1am at the moment and I should be in bed already. I couldn't sleep until I found a pattern for these though. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Heidi, this is a Rosetta stone of a pattern, just fabulous. I am learning Spanish AND crocheting, and your pattern is going to be so helpful. I can work on my crochet skills AND my Spanish vocabulary AND make a lovely hex flower. It doesn't get any better than this! Thank you so much!

Hey Heidi!I absolutely love you blog, the tutorials are fantastic and the pictures make them so easy to follow. I am a fellow blogger, and since you've been translating this, I figured you'd like to know that Blogger just came out with a translate wigit that works really well. I hope that makes future translations easier!

What a great tutorial! I am so not complaining but it took me forever to view the entire thing...I kept getting distracted by all the interesting items you've got going on the right side! Fantastic site!

Thank you for your great tutorial. This is my absolutly first time making hexagons at all!!!I would love to make my son a blanket with these hexagons, but to make it beautiful I need a pattern for ½ hexagon, do you know how to make that or can you post a link or something that showes how to???thank you for this wonderful blogregards all the way from Denmark

You are the best ever teacher! So glad I've stumbled onto your page. I have started up the craft again after years of not crocheting and am oh so ready to try anything. God bless and have a happy weekend.x

Thank you so much for such an easy tutorial!!! I have a silly question, I'm trying to make a ball for my niece but I'm running out of time, is it really necessary to weave in ends?? Will they show if I don't?? Not that I'm lazy but I'm seeing her in a couple of days and I still have a couple more hexagons to go and I would like to have it all done by the time I see her.

Hi Ale :)Thank you for your kind comment! Whether or not to weave in the ends depends on the stitch density you have on your project...if there are spaces between stitches that you may see through, you will have the ends sticking out (just because that is how life works doesn't it? ;) )...so you will need to try and minimize that by weaving in...however, if your stitch density is very tight, you could get away with not weaving in...the best situation is for you to weave them in as you go. Whenever I make my animals, I only sew in one tail, which is the start of a Magic Ring...all the rest of the yarn ends are woven into the next round as you crochet it...I would go nuts trying to sew in all the tails on my animals...

Thank You so much for the tutorial, I'm gonna make a bag and a scarf using these flowers... I have to remember to send you a picture when done :)

There's one thing in the tutorial, that for me seems like a small flaw: When finishing the second round (2dc, chain, 2dc) shouldn't there be one chain after dc just before joining the thread to the 3th of the first chain...? At least I've made it that way to make a "hole" there, too.

I'm so glad I found your blog, beautiful pictures and excellent tutorials!

oh wow oh wow, just found your blog through fb from crochet crowd, this is defo going to be my next project. from south african living in ireland. its wonderfuld to get ideas from home. God bless and happy hooking.

Just found your blog & wow what a find!! Your tutorials are fabulous! So clear & easy to follow. I've got loads of crochet books but so often give up on projects in them because I hit a problem with the pattern at some point. I had just that situation last night, trying out a new square for a quilt but it just wasn't happening so I gave up frustrated. now I'm going to do your beautiful African Flowers Hexagons! Easy! Thank you SO much! Tricia in UK

I really think your work is utterly fantastic, I love the animals and shawls and of course these Flowers. I have tried to crochet them several times and could not get the "hang" of it, But then I watched your blog and wow it blow my mind.. I sat down and made 3 of them . Thank you so much..

Wonderful, wonderful,wonderful blog.. Love all of it...I just watched how to do African flowers and it was great..( done 3 already)Thank you so much.. I want to "tackle" one of the animals next..Again Thank You.

What a GREAT tutorial. I am new to crochet and have heard everyone say how easy the granny square is....well, not for me. I CANNOT wait to get home this evening and make one of these. I am SURE this is exactly what I needed. I heard you on the Yarn Thing podcast and am an instant fan. Thank you.

Hi, I had to stop and say thank you for this fab tutorial. I have been looking for an African flower motif pattern for ages and yours is so easy to follow. Many thanks for taking the time to do this. Linda

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Hi, I'm Heidi, the creative mind behind Heidi Bears, the blog! I am a happily married mom of two beautiful daughters, and live in an old house with wooden floors, which needs more attention than a newborn...but we love her anyway!
I love creative activities and have probably tried every kind of craft at one time or another :) I feel blessed and thankful for the diversity in my life...